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Your Child's Doctor Now Has to Have an Accessible Exam Table and Wheelchair-Accessible Scale
...being a limitation families are expected to work around and became a compliance failure for the provider. What Changed on July 8. The Department of Health and Human Services updated Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in May 2024, the first major revision in nearly 50 years. Most of the attention since...
Medical > Cardiology
Managing Your Child's Heart Health with Muscular Dystrophy: A Parent's Guide to Cardiomyopathy Monitoring
...contracts about 100,000 times per day. Without dystrophin, each contraction causes microscopic tears in cardiac muscle cells. Over years, the muscle scars and stiffens. The heart enlarges to compensate, but eventually it can't pump efficiently. In DMD, this process is inevitable. The genetic mutation eliminates...
Health > Alternative Medicine
CBD for Children with Special Needs: Separating Marketing from Medicine
...online and found that more than a quarter contained significantly less CBD than labeled. Some contained THC when the label claimed none. This isn't a scare tactic. It's a manufacturing reality. Without FDA oversight,...
Health > Mental Health
Health Scare Fatigue!
The text mocks the constant, sometimes absurd health warnings and urges living life fully without fear of alarmist health claims.
Health > Treatment
Neurofeedback: The Cure for ADHD?
Neurofeedback could be a comprehensive, medication-free treatment for ADHD, potentially improving brain function and even IQ scores.
Health > Mental Health
Calm in Crisis
...as “the real thing”. In other words, these screams did not belong to a child who was merely tired or cranky. These sounds belonged to a distressed, scared, frightened, angry, or otherwise wounded child. I listened for the teacher's voice. Was the child being punished? Was someone scolding him? Was he...
Therapies > Physical
Helping Child with Special Needs Through Yoga
...concentration and help children manage certain health conditions, such as headaches and irritable bowel...self-esteem and compassion and improves their overall health,” she said. “Yoga also improves a child’s posture,...In her book, “Yoga for the Special Child,” Sumar shares the success she’s had with Roberta, and later with...
News > Advocacy
Your Doctor's Patient Portal Has 18 Days to Become Accessible. Here's What Disability Families Need to Know Before It Gets Delayed.
The Department of Health and Human Services Section 504 final rule requires...federal funding from HHS. The rule requires digital health services, including websites, patient portals,...accessible diagnostic equipment like exam tables, scales, and mammography machines, prohibition on denying...
News > Research
Early Intervention Before Age 3 Improves Academic Outcomes for Children with Disabilities, New Study Finds
...University Mailman School of Public Health and the New York City Health Department,...Public Health and the New York City Health Department, analyzed data from over...Study Found. Researchers linked public health and education records for 214,370 children...intervention showed higher absolute test scores in English language arts and were more...
News > Advocacy
Supreme Court Dismisses Intellectual Disability Case: What It Means for Families
...when multiple IQ test scores conflict. The case originated...require averaging multiple scores, a method that could raise...Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law noted that a ruling...involves fluctuating test scores. The legal definition...position, allowing multiple IQ scores above 70 to override earlier...70 to override earlier scores below the threshold, it...
News > Advocacy
ICE Enforcement Is Making It Harder to Staff Group Homes and Disability Services. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...region's group homes, residential programs, and home health services scrambling to cover shifts. Roughly 30%...Roughly 30% of long-term care workers and 32% of home health workers are immigrants. When ICE detained workers...in because they had to pay rent, but they were scared. The operation officially ended in February 2026,...
Special Needs > Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy - An Adoption Story
...romanticized and I lacked a real understanding of adoption. I pictured bringing a shy, malnourished, lonely child to my home who would transform into a healthy and happy little person because of the love of our family. I must confess that when we adopted a child with cerebral palsy I also had unrealistic expectations...